Animal husbandry

Advances in Pig Welfare, Second Edition continues its complete coverage of key areas of pig welfare assessment, management and improvement.

Chimpanzees in biomedical and behavioral research constitute a national resource that has been valuable in addressing national health needs.

This is a 1928 guide to incubating and brooding chickens.

"e;This is a delightful book, full of interesting aspects of animal welfare.

The all-new Fourth Edition of Pathology of Domestic Animals comprehensively covers the biology and pathology of diseases of domestic animals on a systemic basic.

Livestock plays an important role in Indian agricultural economy.

Bridging the fields of ecosystem science and landscape ecology, this book integrates Dr.

This volume contains a complete guide to bee-keeping, with information on setting up, general management, diseases, common problems, increasing yields, and much more.

Dogs have become the subject of increasing scientific study over the past two decades, chiefly due to their development of specialized social skills, seemingly a result of selection pressures during domestication to help them adapt to the human environment.

Beginning Beekeeping is a simple, straightforward approach that gives you the basics to get started with beekeeping, while following a balanced, objective approach that weighs the pros and cons of conventional and organic methodologies.

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This book provides a broad perspective on understanding bovine fertility, focusing on the classification and interpretation of bovine sperm defects.

A deep history of how Renaissance Italy and the Spanish empire were shaped by a lingering fascination with breeding.

A research-based account of what we know about zoos, animals living in zoos, and how they interact with humans.

This series of volumes represents a comprehensive and integrated treatment of reproduction in vertebrates from fishes of all sorts through mammals.

Nanobiotechnology for the Livestock Industry: Animal Health and Nutrition delivers a multidisciplinary reference of nanobiotechnology applications in various sectors, including farming practices, healthcare and breeding practices, market and economic analysis/benefits, biosafety, regulation, and more.

With more than 500 breeds recognized by the American Poultry Association, there are different feed necessities, housing requirements, incubation times, egg information, and costs of raising just about any of these various breeds.

Conservation of Marine Birds is the first book to outline and synthesize the myriad of threats faced by one of the most imperiled groups of birds on earth.

Metabolic Diseases in Farm Animals discusses metabolic diseases in farm livestock, focusing on four clinical syndromes-parturient hypocalcaemia, hypomagnesaemia, ketosis, and bloat.

Global Livestock Health Policy is designed to provide an understanding of the complexities of national and subnational animal and public health policies and how those policies impact domestic livestock industries.

An accessible and comprehensive guide, filled with everything you need to set up your own mini-farm and live more self-sufficiently.

One of the main goals in fisheries governance is to promote viability and sustainability in small-scale fishing communities.

This volume reviews the broad topic of welfare in nonhuman primates under human care.

Mucosal Health in Aquaculture is an essential reference on mucosal health for the diverse aquaculture community.

In light of mounting fishing pressures, increased aquaculture production and a growing concern for fish well-being, improved knowledge on the swimming physiology of fish and its application to fisheries science and aquaculture is needed.

Currently India is producing 540 million tones of crop residues that include mainly straws, stovers, dry grasses and roughages.

Organic animal production has increased rapidly in recent years to keep up with the increasing consumer demand for organic meats.

This book presents research on landscape ecology and the relationship between humans and wildlife.

'We jumped in at the deep end and bought a farm!

Intensive Livestock Farming discusses the process of breeding cattle and the products it provides.

Sea Turtles: Field Research and Conservation is a comprehensive reference of experiences with sea turtle species from global experts.

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Advances in Pig Welfare analyzes current topical issues in the key areas of pig welfare assessment and improvement.

This book is dedicated to present different aspects of reproductive physiology and molecular endocrinology of commercially important as well as potential aquaculture fish species.

*With a foreword by Gabe Brown, bestselling author of Dirt to SoilHow can we learn from our mistakes and pave a way for sustainable, nutritious, local meat?

Coastal Dolphins and Porpoises: Ridgway and Harrison's Handbook of Marine Mammals, Volume One, the first volume in the Handbook of Marine Mammals series, covers some of the world's most beautiful, intelligent, and highly adapted mammals that inhabit our seas and oceans.

This book, published in two volumes, provides the most comprehensive review of lamprey biology since Hardisty and Potter's "e;The Biology of Lampreys"e; published more than 30 years ago.

"e;How to Care for the Feet of your Horses and Mules"e; was originally published with the indention of helping farmers get more work from their farm animals by keeping them in better physical condition.

This newly updated and revised volume of the Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology (ESST) details the role of Animal Breeding and Genetics in the sustainability of animal agriculture.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the state of the art in sustainable dairy production, helping the industry to develop more sustainable dairy products, through new technologies, implementing life cycle analysis, and upgrading and optimization of their current production lines.

This is the first ever monumental and scientific documentation of the faunal wealth of the Indian Desert state of Rajasthan.

A rapidly changing and expanding livestock and poultry production sector is causing a range of environmental problems on local, regional and global scales.

Updated and revised, this bestselling textbook continues to provide a broad introduction to the key topics in the welfare of animals both large and small, farm and companion, wild and zoo.

Domestic and wild large mammalian herbivores occur on every continent except Antarctica.

This book examines the contents, influence, and potential of a personal selection of modern books published over the last fifty years that have been relevant to improving welfare.

This book draws together, for the first time, the published research on the behaviour, ecology and welfare of elephants living in zoos, circuses, logging camps and other captive environments in a single comprehensive volume.

Applied Hierarchical Modeling in Ecology: Distribution, Abundance, Species Richness offers a new synthesis of the state-of-the-art of hierarchical models for plant and animal distribution, abundance, and community characteristics such as species richness using data collected in metapopulation designs.

This definitive work on the introduction of domestic animals to Australia begins with the first white settlement at Botany Bay.

First published in 1943, "e;The Farming Ladder"e; aims to explain how the reader may start and maintain a successful and profitable farm in the easiest way possible, without requiring a great deal of special knowledge or skills.